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Malicious MAL-2025-6433

anku2-rce

PyPI package · versions 0.0.1, 0.0.2

Reported Jul 16, 2025 · Updated Mar 19, 2026

If this package is installed

Remove it, treat the machine (or CI runner) as compromised, and rotate every secret, token and key it could access — from a different, clean machine.

Details

Source: kam193 (4a0fdfa7bc3195d177e4d6e3dcad16eb59cc436e2b4dc48230b0c088546086fe)
Installing starts a reverse shell

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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.

Campaign: 2025-07-anku2-rce

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine.

- The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.